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As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the French language round table discussion held on March 3, 2021. (A French translation of this …
Read More As part of the discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the second English language round table discussion held in the afternoon of March 10, …
Read More As part of the discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the Italian language round table discussion that took place on March 2, 2021. (Edit: An …
Read More As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the first English language round table discussion held on March 2, 2021. The session was scheduled to facilitate a broad audience from the EMEA time …
Read More This spring, OCLC Research are running a discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, where library leaders, metadata experts and practitioners from the EMEA time zone (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) …
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Sometimes projects take a long time to come to fruition. An excellent (and recent) example of this is the Terms of Use and Re-Use for Finding Aid Metadata project which was launched …
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We have been tracking the use of the MARC standard, as evidenced in WorldCat records (now well over 400 million!) for six years. Not only have we reported on how …
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Is it someone in the library? Or maybe in the office of institutional research? What about the office of the vice president for research? Or maybe the provost’s or rector’s …
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Research information management (RIM), also often called Current Research Information Systems (CRISs), is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of metadata about research activities. Institutional RIM adoption, in tandem with activities …
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Fifteen years ago to the day I declared that “MARC Must Die” in Library Journal. It sparked a firestorm of criticism, mostly from the cataloging community, and several invitations to …
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